
The captain and first officer of a ship being used to protest the annual seal hunt off Canada's east coast are facing charges following a confrontation with a coast guard vessel earlier this week.
Men died after their boat capsized while being towed ashore by the Canadian Coast Guard
Roger Girouard has been appointed to lead an investigation into the deaths of at least three sealers whose vessel capsized while being towed by a coast guard icebreaker in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
A heavy icebreaker will join in the search Friday for a missing Quebec sealer and the boat that capsized last weekend off the coast of Cape Breton.
Rescuer ship's tow of troubled fishing boat ends in fatal capsize, killing three sealers as they slept below deck
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